The Greater Bay Area is home to big-name tech companies like Tencent, Huawei and DJI. A robot from UBTech Robotics stands in the reception area of the company's headquarters in Shenzhen. The city, a technology hotbed, is one of 11 included in China’s Greater Bay Area plan.
China has announced ambitious plans to build its own “bay area” to rival Silicon Valley in technological might. The Chinese government has pledged to turn the so-called Greater Bay Area, which comprises 11 cities in southern China, into a global tech and financial center. The area is already the country’s most economically dynamic region, containing the tech hub of Shenzhen, the financial center of Hong Kong and the gambling hub of Macau. By 2035, the Chinese region is expected to have some of the world’s top companies, best universities, busiest ports and most advanced technologies.
The 55-kilometer Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge that was opened in October, 2018